Face2Face, a small social-networking software startup company, employs five grad-student developers (Suzy Chu, Jared Fleck, Fuji Montrose, Mia Postino and Gillian Roberts) with their professor, Dr. Vincenzo Ferrari, as team leader. Face2Face has twenty-five beta testers, five assigned to each developer. The company's public mission: to make proxies (artificially intelligent stand-ins) for social-networking users who are too busy to make frequent status updates. The company's private mission (Project Solomon): to create and instate an artificially intelligent US president by 2020.